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In the last decade, Ukraine has suffered one of the largest increases in new cases of illnesses caused by the HIV virus in the whole world. The east of the country has been particularly hard hit, and the violent crisis there means that medical care is in a very precarious state. People who are already infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and flee to the west of the country also become victims of harsh stigmatisation. Misha Friedmann produced his report with the support of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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Misha Friedman
Born in Moldova in 1977, Misha Friedman studied Economics and International Relations in Birmingham and London. After graduating, he first worked in the financial sector, and then in the field of humanitarian medical aid. Friedman is a self-taught photographer, who has already photographed for Time Magazine, Spiegel, Le Monde, Amnesty International and Doctors without Borders, and who has received recognitions from, among others, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Friedman lives in New York.
www.mishafriedman.com